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Set in Israel just before the Six-Day War, this novel describes life on a kibbutz, where the founders of Israel and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. Oz’s “strangest, riskiest, and richest novel” (Washington Post Book World). Translated bContinue
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lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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Jews, Have Pity!
The true hero of A Perfect Peace—something which, we shall be unsurprised to hear, doesn’t exist—is a kibbutz, Kibbutz Granot, populated largely by ex-Russians and ex-Poles, and looking “as if it had been built out of blocks by an intelligent child.” ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 374 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0140088857
- ISBN-13: 9780140088854
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: Jun 03, 1986
- Dimensions: 180 mm x 130 mm x 30 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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